POEM: Freely

Posted on October 25, 2026 by Top Pun

It seems that capitalism (getting the most for the least) has made US a nation of thieves. If you leave your door unlocked, you are blamed for someone stealing from you; as if an unlocked door is an irresistible temptation to steal. Buy the weigh, many of us older folks grew up in neighbor hoods where many people did not lock their doors — and they didn’t get robbed out of existence. Our current fortress mentality teaches us that distrust is the default — always the default of others, of course. I yearn to give and receive freely. I want my life to be an unlocked adore…

Freely

They came to steal
That which I had
Awe ready
Freely given

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POEM: BanDuel –Owed to Banning Rogue AI

Posted on October 24, 2026 by Top Pun

Not regulating AI may be the biggest abet humans have ever made…

BanDuel –Owed to Banning Rogue AI

The tech bros are sporting
Existential abets
On hour grave humanity
Or civilization as wee no it
Making degrade
A dual
To the death
With out laws
Gaming the plays
We must efface
What might
Turn out
To be
The biggest fan
In history

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POEM: The Dread See

Posted on October 24, 2026 by Top Pun

We live in weigh existential times. Feel free to remember awe the glorious experiences available to those having won the existence lottery…

The Dread See

“…condemned to be free” –Jean-Paul Sartres, an existential philosopher that ellipses awe others

They could knot keep
Clear of
That existential angst
Of being apart
Of that dread see
As soul drop
In an abyss
Of fathomless horizons
An unimaginable sale
Embracing our selves as abut
Oceans
On this glorious earth
Unable to efface
Awe directions at wince

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POEM: Being Herd

Posted on October 21, 2026 by Top Pun

Let us lift up the voices of the voiceless…

Being Herd

There were masses
Wholly intent on lifting up
The voices of the voiceless
Fearlessly effacing the powers that be
Halving
Bin tolled
Consider yourselves herd

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POEM: Mine and Under Mine

Posted on October 19, 2026 by Top Pun

American politics is often reactionary, tacking right, and “centrist” Dems undermining the left…

Mine and Under Mine

The afar right
Has mine, mine, mine
The centrists in the mettle halve
Undermine, undermine, undermine
What’s left

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POEM: Character By Example

Posted on October 18, 2026 by Top Pun

Much foolishness arises from not paying heed to the long-game reality that character is destiny. Compromising means for ends is reliably corrosive to high ideals…

Character By Example

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” –Albert Schweitzer

The regime
In question
Tempted
To make an example of me
Howbeit much
Too their chagrin
I had
Awe ready
Done
Sow
Character verses
Caricature
Quiet revealing verses
Rackety bearing

“Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.” –James Lane Allen

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POEM: The Tell

Posted on October 18, 2026 by Top Pun

The easiest form of hubris is not learning from our enemies…

The Tell

“I love my enemies for two reasons: They inspire me to recognize my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.” – Sri Chinmoy
“The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” – Marcus Aurelius

There are lies we tell
There are lies we cannot tell
And sum are real beauts
A symmetry that is Greek to awe
Bearing gifts
If my faux leads the weigh
Might I just
Fallow my ideals
My posed values
And portend that it takes me
In the vary arms of my enemy
Who are awe bad
Wear as I am soully so so wrong
Baste on what
That place abet
Their offering
Of a bettor way
Where the hows
All ways win

Miss understanding means and ends leads too many ‘means’ and ‘ends’.

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POEM: Unbroken

Posted on October 17, 2026 by Top Pun

The attention economy can be as brutal as the monetary economy. Perhaps this is no accident but rather a function of capitalism…

Unbroken

My tension was divided
Into allot
Here and there
Every wear
Hit with a switch
Taken aback
And fourth
To my first task
At least that
Is what
I think
And due
Further more
Even when
I want to stop
Soully to find mine wandering
In culpable of being board
That train of mine
As if it whir
Screaming
Go go go
When
Awe the time
Wanting to fasten
To home
In on
Awe of many truths
Too big to swallow
In a few bytes
That which can’t be
Stressed too much
That feeling of empty
Mind fullness
Grasping won as looser
Apprehending letting go
Taken in
Awe that one be hold
In security you can’t quiet no
Intuit
Beyond belief
What can be said and done
Won at a time
Wear attention
Is more than
Flashes of sow
Called naked
Truth
Unbroken in sight

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POEM: Hegseth the Peter

Posted on October 16, 2026 by Top Pun

This poem was triggered by the tempted livestream public execution of a “violent radical Islamist” as per war chief Peter Hegseth…

Hegseth the Peter

Hegseth the Peter
As much as any won
Is a violent radical Christian
If he whir Christian

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POEM: Amateur Our

Posted on October 12, 2026 by Top Pun

I am a big fan and eager participant in the gift economy. A fringe benefit is that this is beyond the ability of capitalists to compute…

Amateur Our

Giving berth to anti-capitalists
There is know labor in me
Freely volunteering
I can
Bye
That pros and cons
Come together
Though ever more
As but infants
Soily themselves
A gift for awe
Into cautionary tails

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POEM: Long After You Dead

Posted on October 10, 2026 by Top Pun

Life finds a way — though often a long, longing way. May your life lead to more life…

Long After You Dead

Saving a life
Is as vein
As that life well
Spent
Wear day buy day
Most of what we due
In a madder of decades
Means
Less than
Shit
Fodder of awe
As life answers death
Casually spitting
An apple seed in a field
Life skipping
A long
Generations
After you dead

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POEM: Why’s Guise

Posted on October 10, 2026 by Top Pun

I interrogate the outside whirled a lot. Though sometimes the best question, the most fruitful question, is: “What is it about this situation that disturbs ME?” This helps me come to better terms a bout my own, inner peace, and inner turmoil…

Why’s Guise

I found myself playing
Catch-up
As I hid
Behind
My non-stop questioning
Parently as sum why’s guise
How hard it might
Be
Looking within
Without accepting
Caught up in the mirror reality
Soully pondering if
It looks like a duck
Walks like a duck
And quacks like a duck
Then it’s a duck
And sucking avoid
As eye decided
To look elsewhere
Then my self
I plodded a weigh
Too get out
Of dodge
By coming to
Where in the real fight is
Won self

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POEM: A We Problem

Posted on October 9, 2026 by Top Pun

Ethics is social in essence, that is, involving other people. Ethics is collectivist. Personal responsibility is social responsibility…

A We Problem

Eye had a problem
Sew it seamed
Mine and mine
A loan
Untill that is
An other showed up
Assembling what was now
A we problem
Into what was better yet
A wee problem

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POEM: Generational Wealth

Posted on October 8, 2026 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about generational wealth in our capitalist society, being tied, to extractive industries and the financialization of everything, and still missing the real wealth in life…

Generational Wealth

They extracted
As much
As they could
From life
Getting
Soully what they got
As a ward their rare earth mettle
Nows eternally souled
As traders of currency
More, then they could ever need
As much
Goaled
Passable
From grave to grave

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POEM: Mouth Peace

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Top Pun

I am not a fan of “spokespersons,” particularly those shilling for corporate “persons” or partisans in the government. This poem was specifically inspired by department of war shills…

Mouth Peace

I need a job
Sow I don’t speak for myself
I represent my boss, a corporate person
Sow I don’t speak for others
I am won for doublespeak
Speaking up is speaking down
Affront of others

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POEM: Keeping Pays with AI

Posted on October 5, 2026 by Top Pun

The human race getting second place to AI should not be an option…

Keeping Pays with AI

We are faster, then ever be for
We are only one step behind
In the raze
Fore humanity
It
Soully seems bad
When you get too
The finish lyin’
In the bag
Awe the silver mettle
A small prize to pay
For pooh pooing number two
And those who can’t even go there

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POEM: Allot of Money

Posted on October 4, 2026 by Top Pun

The way we relate to money tells a lot about us…

Allot of Money

Sum people
Look at allot of money
And think profit
Some people
Look at allot of money
And think prophet
Behold
Where you set your I’s
Sow does your heart lie

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

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POEM: A Posed

Posted on October 4, 2026 by Top Pun

At some point, every ideology wrests on assumptions, that soul stuff that we “choose” to believe. I try to center my life around the conviction that humanity is one, that we are all siblings, in my view God’s children. Form me, what follows is a radical equality and a path of nonviolence, compassion for all, including my enemies. What assumptions do you follow? . . .

A Posed

Are you a posed
To still
Believing
In loo of evidence
Not sow much
It’s what is called
ID-ology
The root of won’s belief
The ground of one’s soul
Beyond belief
The premises on which we live
And die
And what might
That be
A good
Start
A tending us
Where ever we go
Till we end up
God knows wear
As in the mean time
The wrest is up
To me

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POEM: Hope Less Strategy

Posted on October 3, 2026 by Top Pun

Hope may not be a strategy, but without hope strategy is hopeless…

Hope Less Strategy

You may have herd
That hope might
Knot be a strategy
Won of those pills
Too big
To swallow hole
Off course, you may want to
Chew over
Sum rout
To void despair
And cultivate hope
Now
That’s a plan

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POEM: Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails

Posted on October 3, 2026 by Top Pun

Yet another poetic takedown of AI on all affronts…

Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails

“Every won poops, accept AI.”

It turned out
That they whir
Be dazzled
Buy bigger is bettor
The human raze
Is awe in
Wading for salvation
From the con fines
Of the human mine
Mine, mine!
Race, race, race!
Sects, sects, sects!
And madders of the human heart
Holed in the mettle of data centers
Drowning in the soul solution
Too ill defined
Plights of fancy
The bind leading the bind
As if know a
Weigh given to save the whirled
Too buy too
On an existential arc
Soully to find ourselves
Stuck on a bout
Unable to get off
Firmly helled by won stale mate
After another
Ass the future
Is behind us
And unlike AI
Everyone oops
In culpable to clean up
That witch is overdo
For ever more
De-ported
In habiting the back wards
Err it is
Too late
Living without heir
We won’t be
Food agin
Abut too know a veil
Halving apprehended
Hour lessen
Soully left
Too ponder us
Weather fucked
As unfucking believable

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